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As a voluntary service to the community, the Department is engaged in popular scientific and educational activities. The Department has initiated a lecture and demonstration program for high-school students. During its two decades of existence, tens of thousands of high-school students in Haifa and the northern part of Israel attended the special program, thereby being exposed at an early stage to the benefits of a higher education in general and the study of chemistry in particular. Furthermore, open-house activities, in which the different research groups open their labs and present their research to interested visitors, are carried out twice a year. Advanced laboratory programs in specific topics are offered to selected groups of science-oriented high-school students. In addition, workshops for chemistry teachers are organized by by the department, to provide the chemistry education system with up-to-date information on scientific progress.
The faculty of the Department of Chemistry maintains strong international scientific ties. This is expressed through a variety of international collaborative research projects with leading scientists worldwide, as well as participation in international conferences and hosting them.
A cornerstone of the Department's contacts with the international scientific community is an ongoing Guest Professorship Program, which brings two or three of the world's leading chemists to the Technion campus each year for a period of six to twelve weeks. During their stay, each teaches an advanced course in his/her area of expertise, and shares his/her research experience with the faculty and students of the Department.
Under the terms of a bequest from the eminent analytical chemist, the late I. M. Kolthoff, the Kolthoff Prize is awarded annually to a prominent faculty member from one of Israels leading academic institutions. The Kolthoff laureate is invited to the Department for a week, and delivers a series of lectures at the Technion in his or her area of expertise. In addition, the Yearly David Ginsburg Memorial Lecture allows to invite a leading international chemist to present his work at the departmental colloquium.
Students and faculty are accorded further exposure and interaction with a broad spectrum of research topics via weekly departmental colloquia and sub-departmental seminars, presented by lecturers from both Israel and abroad.
These activities provide an ongoing opportunity for the exchange of ideas between Technion faculty and students and eminent scientists from other institutions.
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